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This is a Congress which
the Constitution says is

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a charge of deciding how to spend money
the president knew he'd lose the vote but

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said earlier it won't matter how do if
you know it's not going to be overturned

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he's not saying if there will be consequences
for the Republicans who voted against

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him solder at the White House U.S.

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Backed forces battling the last remnants
of the Islamic state self declared

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caliphate penetrated deeper into the
terror group's enclave Thursday of

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a good result in the second mass surrender
in almost as many days this is below

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a news. British lawmakers
voted Thursday to seek

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a three month delay in Britain's scheduled
March twenty ninth split from the twenty

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eight nation European Union after
overwhelmingly voting against holding

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a new brigs that referendum

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a piece been Thomas has details I still
write four hundred twelve the newsletter

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too I'm going to so the eyes of it the
eyes of it and with that the House of

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Commons approved prime minister Teresa
Mayes proposal to postpone Britain's

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departure from the European Union until
June thirtieth but only if parliament

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approved her withdrawal of the almost week
British lawmakers have already rejected

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May's divorce deal twice and if it fails
the third time May has warned supporters

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the only option will be to seek

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a longer extension and that she says could
mean Rex it never happens any delay

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would require that unanimous approval
of all twenty seven remaining E.U.

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Member states I'm Ben Thomas the US
military has carried out three air strikes

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against al Shabaab militants and Somalia
and less than a week continuing

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a rapid pace could triple last year's
record setting strike numbers according to

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U.S.

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Africa Command the latest strike killed
three militants near him Mali in the lower

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Juba region on Wednesday
and the strike came

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a day after an airstrike killed two al
Shabaab militants in the vicinity in the

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lower region acting secretary of defense
Pat Shanahan has flatly denied that the

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United States would ask nations that house
U.S. Troops to pay the full cost of U.S.

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Service members deployed on their
territory plus fifty percent more for the

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privilege of American defense last week
media reports said that President Trump was

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considering ramping up financial costs for
wealthy allies like Japan South Korea

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and Germany to house American bases the
report said the allies would be required to

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pay one hundred fifty percent of the basing
cost Boeing announced Thursday it. Is

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suspending deliveries of its seven thirty
seven MAX jets to airlines after nearly

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every country grounded the plane following
Sunday's deadly crash in Ethiopia

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a Boeing spokesman said the company would
continue to build the seven thirty seven

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jets while assessing how the situation would
impact the company's production system

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French aviation experts began analyzing
the so-called black boxes from the

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Ethiopian Airlines jet Thursday aviation
analyst Scott Hamilton says the flying

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public needs to hear more detailed information
before confidence in the Boeing MAX

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aircraft can be restored Sunday's crash
of an Ethiopian seven thirty seven MAX

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eight and just after takeoff killed one
hundred fifty seven people I'm Tommy

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McNeill V.O.A.

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News. Good

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morning Africa Welcome to DAYBREAK Africa
from the Voice of America and James about

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it in Washington today is Friday March
fifteenth and there are some of the stories

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we are covering the President Joyce
Banda has withdrawn her candidacy in

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a made for the first election to enter
into an alliance. Already. Born

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to. Enter the country we. Call our people.

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We if you're right it. Is the spokesman
for the Congress party governorship

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elections in six states in
Nigeria remain inconclusive

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a week after the vote Zimbabwe's government
suspends And the encouraging protests

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colons are cautiously optimistic about
efforts to repatriate the country's stolen

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funds and a family mourns the death of

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a member in the Ethiopian Airlines crash
when I'm an American and when us to.

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My brother was when he came back from
vacation I spoke to him the night before he

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boarded the flight in the W.H.O.

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Almost two and the hours Ebola outbreak in
six months those the response times and

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all knowledge Supposing I will is now
the Day coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.

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Congress Party the biggest opposition group
in the country says it plans to form an

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alliance of former President Joyce Banda
Peoples Party to run up to the upcoming

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made for the first elections formally
withdrew her candidacy on Thursday to endorse

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last. Presidential candidates for the
man I would Congress party but former

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president has been criticized for having
no political loyalty to ideology she held

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talks early this year with vice
presidency. To form an alliance. Is

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a spokesman for them and I will Congress
party indeed we. Discussions with the.

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DOCTOR. And that we speak. Only when

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that conference between. The People's Party
and their own idea is to communicate

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that we. Are going to work together and.

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Realistically what are your chances if you
work together with the president's party

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and his apprentice for the elections
you know Malawians one change.

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One united nation so one of the things
that the but I want to see is that parties

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are coming together. And what we want
to see happening in this country if

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we actually for our people. Are not we

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a divided front we are
fighting in common but with

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a common enemy and we all want to come
forward and that's why we better chances

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ousting this D.B.P.

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Government. But more than some people are
saying the former president cannot be

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trusted cause

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a few weeks back she was in discussion
with France president. To form an alliance

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before the elections she has abandoned
that on land and she is joining your party

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full elections some people she says she
is not trustworthy so why go into an

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alliance with somebody who is not politically
loyal to one party or the other. But

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the few.

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Who do not want to go into what we
know about. The principle that.

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Country. And we know what you did and
we have no doubt whatsoever. What.

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We. Want to Believe. So we're looking

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forward to working with.
You know him. Well

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but there are quite

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a sense now there are divisions within
the rank and file of the M.C.P.

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The biggest opposition party in my long in
that that gives incumbent president. The

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best chance to win reelection because of
the divisions I think it's an open door

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policy. And work with us but.

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We want to. So. Mariza Tali

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is the spokesman for all of them and I
would Congress Party spoke with us Peter

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Clottey from. A week after Nigeria held
governorship election seen twenty nine of

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his thirty six days the Independent
National Electoral Commission has declared

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inconclusive elections in six states by
Adam online tool so called Tool Ben week

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and Karl coalition the votes from Rivers
State has also been suspended due to

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widespread disruption and accusations
of interference by some elements of the

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military wrote to me or you can me is the
chief press secretary to I know Chairman

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. He says

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a combination of factors contributed to
the declaration inconclusive elections in

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the sixty's including the discontinuity
shown of the use of this month called Riga

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of avoid ten and widespread disruption
of the electoral process in many pulling

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areas.

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Where are they going to make with own
elections were in. The area will include.

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Mention. To be election. Because

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according to like I'd like an recollection
the market read extra report.

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Number two. Number three what disruption
of the electorate protests in

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many calling in to the
convention. Next to.

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Not make

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a report and so the election became
conclusive. That. On its own

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it probably an election on sixty
indicators that we brought in

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because election really I was. Willing.
To place what the commission did

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was. An. Hour. To go

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through and find out what happened become

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a to return to and hopefully
probably crown proud because. Of it

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and I'm not rude to me does this mean that
the elections in these six states are

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going to be really organized are you going
to have new elections correct we're

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going to have election in area in the
in about war it may not be the end

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look at government because the situation
may not be affected all the look at the

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great so it is really to look at

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a government. But could be elections but
to the situation you mentioned River

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State is the problem with they commission
on the problem with the two political

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parties many in the P.D.T.
And the. Really M.P.C.

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Is that the problem there in reverse that
it probably would be problem of power now

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when we conduct elections we need. Not be
able to because election or what would

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you got during the period you know we
are on our own from polling really

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a lot. We read every where
there was you know all about.

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How I make less money be
better all you want it. Is

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like you also. Wrote to me or you can me
is the chief press secretary to Nigeria's

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Independent National Electoral Commission
Chairman. He was speaking with me from

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the capital. You're listening to daybreak
Africa and the Voice of America I'm James

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but in Washington today it's Friday March
fifteenth they've recovered the time in

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fourteen minutes past the hour the
Zimbabwe government has suspended

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a non-governmental organization for allegedly
encouraging people to stage public

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protest earlier this year against the
high cost of living mines Volman girl

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district administrator Bray hall they
suspend with immediate effect community

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a tolerance and reconciliation
Development Trust

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a youth organization that promotes democracy
development and human rights issues

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hold this suspended the NGO pending
investigations about the group's registration.

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Gooney is really Zanu P.F.

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Activist he spoke with Gates debate
I'll use him as the Washington I think.

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You got me and I don't and I think he
didn't but I made it to the government.

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And on the.

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Wall.

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To. Get it I would get in

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a lot of property. And they could see.

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You all. Got me going I
think. Because people.

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From. Your own government so

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know who did the way things are happening
in Zimbabwe in. Some kind of bad light on

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the governmental. Level So is this
not a bad move you know. This is

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a new government that
has done little things.

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To different. You know you.

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Want to. Know about me.

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And I. Could be I. Was
not really want to go.

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You know what. One

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hundred.

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Twenty.

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Rulings on

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a piece of activist he spoke with gets to
be of us Zimbabwe service from Washington

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Golan's I express

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a mixed views on whether or not President
Lawrence souls efforts to repatriate

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suspect funds world pay off for the
struggling economy. Understood last

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year to those who bring back billions of
dollars held illegally to foreign bank

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accounts but while the
president has been praised for

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a crackdown on corruption it's not clear
how much if any of the money has come back

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less of a custom

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a role has all from the capital Luanda
losing to his one of thousands of Sheed when

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his impressive them and they
had a license market about

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a half hour drive from downtown London she
Cuba's construction materials business

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has been struggling since the price of oil
and coal its biggest export drop four

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years ago Angola has since face

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a shortage of foreign currency which
has discouraged banks from lending to

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businesses like she was the government of
President Laurent so has been seeking to

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inject money into the country with an amnesty
for those who make Patry and suspect

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fines but she Cooper has doubts that the
program will help at least for businesses

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like her does. This still in monies for
the tycoons who are still in it she

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says but if money really returns it would
be useful if the government Hobbs' more

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business owners with loans to refinance
and develop Lauren So who was elected in

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two thousand and seventeen says the case
of corruption under Angola's former

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president who are those Santo's left big.
Missing from state coffers the former

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president denies any looting injuring his
thirty eight years in power he fell out

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with Lorraine So after the president's
much lauded anti-corruption drive targeted

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members of the songs his family Angola
lawmakers lost Shabak Lorraine's on giving

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amnesty for those who bring illegally
transferred funds back into the country but

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so far there's been no announcements on
return money despite some high profile

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arrests and prosecutions critics
like opposition you need

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a party lawmaker to cost the union
says that raises doubts about the

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anti-corruption drive the thing will be all
week but the collapse of the summit he

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says it seems like this is a
selective struggle it is not

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a Russell fight against corruption since
junior It seems like they are protected

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people in very calculated goals
being pursued he says and

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a fight like this is not efficient the end
goal in central bankers cited billions

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of dollars over the years as having been
eagerly centerboard while tens of billions

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in government funds linked to one goal
is that all companies song all have

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disappeared the rants aside the sciences
daughter who is running so Mongol and

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streamline operations and regulations to
encourage foreign investors lawyer until

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you've been through to is with the watchdog
group associates buyers just decent you

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Democracia he knows it won't be so easy
to eliminate systemic corruption and

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recover stolen funds after
decades of exploitation.

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The process of recovering the
money's not an easy task he says

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a lot of this money was put in financial
as it says when to it or many of which are

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earning interest in foreign banks however
he says the fact that the Angolan Central

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Bank has made no announcement about
how much it has recovered isn't

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a mission that indicates a violation
of the right to inform citizens U.S.

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Officials and choose their praised Lorenzo's
anti-corruption efforts at head of

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a visit at the end of the week by U.S.

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Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan
Sullivan. Will meet with the NGO and

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president to discuss global security
issues he'll also meet with the business

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community to underscore the importance of
expanding economic and trade ties between

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the U.S. And Angola Elizabeth
customary for V.O.A.

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News. The wall Health Organization chief
says the outbreak in the east Democrat the

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Republic of Congo can be brought to an
end in six months if everything goes as

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planned latest figures from the B.R.C.

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Ministry of Health put the number of
Ebola cases at nine hundred twenty seven

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including five hundred eighty four deaths
Lisa Schneider reports from W H A H All

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headquarters in Geneva W.H.O.

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Direct General Ted for us on

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a non-gay brigade acknowledges any of the
challenges that lie ahead could undo the

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gains achieved so far in controlling the
spread of the Ebola virus but he says

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enough progress has been made to believe
the ball outbreak in Congo is North Kivu

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any Turi provinces can be shut down in six
months time he says transmission of the

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a BOLO virus has been stopped and they
need mangina and always in North Kebo

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province it hasn't spread to other parts
of the country and it hasn't spread to

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neighboring countries I think anybody can
argue that this is fact and something

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that we can say is good news and the
second is not only that it's not spreading

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it's actually contracting W.H.O.

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Reports the virus has been contained in
eleven of the twenty eight communities

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affected by Ebola since January it says the
number of new cases reported every week

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has dropped by half from the now average
of fifty cases to twenty five. Lisa

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Schneider reporting from Geneva families
from different parts of the world continue

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to move on the deaths of their
loved ones killed Sunday in

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a crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight
three hundred two thirty four year. All

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Abdulahi Abraham was one of thirty two
Kenyans who perished on day one will be

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bound to flight his family is still coming
to terms with the death of their loved

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ones were reports a few
hours before he boarded

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a ship in Airlines Flight three zero two

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a bit late but he chatted with his sister
I shall i she had not seen her brother

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for close to

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a year and was exaggerated about their
reunion when I'm an American we should

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inquire Needless to feeling of occasions
when they laughed at me so my brother was

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a year ago when he came back from vacation
I spoke to him the night before he

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boarded the flight he said that I should
not tell the extended family that he was

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coming and he wanted it to be a surprise
four days later Manas continued to visit

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a blaze home an aerobic Kibera neighborhood
of delays family is now hoping they can

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at least buddied their loved one a blaze
Osman a blight Taliban spoke to V.O.A.

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To talk to the brother told him that even
if that peace can be identified is not

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going to come and so that we can send this
crash was the deadliest accept accident

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in Ethiopian Airlines history the plane

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a boy seventy seven marks eight crashed
just six minutes after takeoff near the

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Ethiopian town of B.

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Show of two killing all one hundred fifty
seven on board five months idea another

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boy incident at the seven marks eight crash
into the Jever sea of Indonesia killing

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one hundred eighty nine mine day Tippett
airlines regional manager uber Goetia

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announced the airline was
grounding its marks a feat

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a move followed by most of the airline in
countries that are on the watch list but

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this does not mean that the incident was
related to his defects on be specific

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but we have taken this as an extra safety
precaution the plane's flight data

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recorder and cockpit voice recorder have
been sent to parties for detailed analysis

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Meanwhile it's open air lines and choose

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a few sixty four. Relatives of the victims
of the crash site is wife and father

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were among them their hopes
of finding a piece of

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a blaze body to body on weight is there
an airline spokesman said that no bodies

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were recovered from the crash site it appears
the force of the crash pulverize all

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the bodies as

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a belies family continue to mourn they
hope they will find closure they need we

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without his remains were
for VO news narrow be.

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Here or something. Nigeria

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a very good Friday morning to you something
good Friday morning to you James we

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begin the sports with

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a look at these weekend's fixtures in the
cafe Champions League and will battle for

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top sporting group of the CAF
Champions League when they meet at

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a book or rap stadium in Alexandra on
Saturday Egyptian Giants Holly will come into

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the March placed second on the log seven
points and on course to reach the quarter

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finals this is despite them falling to
a one nil defeat away to die. Is V.

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To Kinshasa last week it was. A lit
cool for the black dolphins in Group

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B. C.

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And Orlando Pirates will battle for

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a place in the quarter finals when they
meet at the start to do twenty it's

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a tempering Conakry Guinea and signed up
placed second on the log with seven points

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while the South African visitors are third
on six points elsewhere as she's an

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unlikely berth in the quarter finals of the
Cup Champions League with the phase the

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stars of the stadium in Nigeria on
Saturday come into the much placed food

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on the group

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a log level of points with second place
where I. Ranked below the moral grounds on

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the head to head. Tiebreaker team would
football news Blackstone's head coach

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Chrissy appeal has defended he's come up
three to look Leigh based players for the

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twenty one thousand African qualifier
against Kenya later this month at P.S.

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Twenty four months would include as
articles trio of Feliks Alan Amos Frimpong

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quite have been touring all doubleton for
the national team clash at the Akron

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National Stadium May I believe in.

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Being

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a player. If anything he
doesn't. Miss Missed. Elsewhere

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Liberian national team coach
so much could do has named

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a twenty man squad that would travel to
Kinshasa to take on the Democratic Republic

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of Congo in the twenty one thousand African
Cup of Nations crucial encounter coach

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could do team released on Thursday's made
of dominant overseas players and if you

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look at the best players the new star coach
will also be missing former captain and

00:26:07
stop player an in-law for v

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e reports have moved his guts out
angst coach could do what he's

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a lection who possibly look like
Well as you mention. Him for and

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believe that they really have. Players in
the team and then the rest of the players

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are for in these players players and
that's it on DAYBREAK Africa's sports I am

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Samson. Geria it's back to you James
in Washington for just as they have

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a good week and we look forward to report
again on Monday morning and that is it

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for this Friday March fifteenth edition of
DAYBREAK Africa we thank you for us but

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in this winter those who will be out for
the DAYBREAK Africa team producer Nicole

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back from reporters Peter Clottey and rakish
truck as well as Post editor something

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among all Molly along with all of our
engineers on Jen's body washes away you

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a very good weekend. I

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Today is Friday March fifteenth this is
veal ways international edition I'm Lori

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London in Washington coming up will
passengers get enough information to feel

00:28:20
confident to fly on Boeing's Max eight
jetliners but they don't tell you why they

00:28:25
say it's safe and that doesn't
mean a sure of the flying public

00:28:30
a strong rebuke from his own party on the
president's national emergency border

00:28:34
wall argument today's vote capped

00:28:37
a week of something the American people
haven't seen enough of in the past two

00:28:41
years both parties the United States
Congress standing up to Donald Trump and

00:28:48
also ahead of the music a Britney Spears
will be on Broadway. Well the U.S.

00:28:54
Congress is formally rejected President
Donald Trump's national emergency

00:28:57
declaration to fund wall construction
on the US Mexico border triggering

00:29:02
a near certain presidential veto the
always Michael Bowman reports from Capitol

00:29:07
Hill where the Senate joined the House of
Representatives and disapproving what has

00:29:11
been

00:29:12
a contentious executive action the A's are
fifty nine the nays are forty one. The

00:29:19
joint resolution is passed it's
Congress's first or rejection of

00:29:24
a national emergency declaration

00:29:26
a declaration President Trump made when he
couldn't get the funding he wanted from

00:29:31
lawmakers for a wall on the southern
border with Mexico this is not

00:29:36
a normal vote it's not a
normal day at issue whether

00:29:40
a president can redirect federal funds for

00:29:43
a border wall that Congress has not
approved the president section comes into

00:29:49
direct conflict with Congress's wording
to determine the appropriation

00:29:56
of. At power vested in
Congress by the framers of our

00:30:02
Constitution and undeterred trama
promised action to defend his emergency

00:30:08
declaration you probably have to veto and
it's not going to be overturned the legal

00:30:14
scholars will say it's totally constitutional
it's very important it's really

00:30:19
a border security vote twelve Senate
Republicans voted for the resolution most

00:30:24
stood with the president the president
is operating within existing law and the

00:30:29
questions on our border is all too real
when hundreds of thousands of foreigners

00:30:35
arrive at the southern border and demand
entry that's not migration that's an

00:30:39
emergency and I threat to our sovereignty
Democrats noted that America's border

00:30:44
deficiencies have been debated for years
arguing the situation is far from

00:30:49
a national emergency and that Trump
is exceeding his authority by defying

00:30:54
Congress's will he declared an emergency
because he lost in Congress and wants to

00:30:59
get around he's obsessed with showing
strength and he couldn't just abandon his

00:31:05
pursuit of the border wall so he had to
trample on the constitution although

00:31:10
Congress has not funded trumps border wall
requests earlier this year lawmakers did

00:31:16
provide limited funds to erect new fencing
or. Long small sections of the US Mexico

00:31:21
border and outlay the president deemed
inadequate Congress is unlikely to override

00:31:27
a presidential veto boosting the likelihood
that federal courts will decide the

00:31:32
fate of the national emergency declaration
Michael Bowman News the Capitol it's

00:31:39
been

00:31:39
a week or busy week for the special counsel's
probe into Russia's interference into

00:31:43
the two thousand and sixteen presidential
election and whether the Trump campaign

00:31:47
was in any way involved but there are signs
that the investigation could be coming

00:31:51
to

00:31:52
a close earlier I talked about it Robert
diet's professor of governmental affairs at

00:31:56
George Mason University in the state of
Virginia thank you for being with us so

00:32:01
before we talk about the end game former
Trump campaign chair Paul man afore it was

00:32:06
sentenced to more jail time this week and
then within hours of that sentence he was

00:32:10
indicted on more charges from the New York
attorney general given the timing do you

00:32:15
think that was intentional it's often
challenging to figure out what is priming and

00:32:20
what is coincidence I had the
same thought that it was

00:32:23
a remarkable coincidence that moer
gets a second sons and within

00:32:26
a day the attorney general New York announces
the first Cyrus Vance Jr in politics

00:32:32
kind of

00:32:32
a right kind of runs in the family so he
certainly self-aware of the political

00:32:36
context I think it may have been deliberate
in the sense of let's remind the

00:32:40
American people that the reach of the
president in pardoning is limited to federal

00:32:45
crimes of federal crimes
only and it turns out that

00:32:48
a substantial number
of federal crimes have

00:32:51
a state crime counterpart and if Vance is
prosecution is successful there's nothing

00:32:57
that the president can do in terms of
pardoning and of course we know now that the

00:33:02
president's former advisor Roger Stone

00:33:04
a court date was set for him on Thursday
and the Deputy Special Counsel for Robert

00:33:11
Mueller Andrew Weissman is expected to
leave office soon earlier this month

00:33:15
a senior F.B.I.

00:33:16
Agent overseeing the law enforcement agent.
She's worked for the Miller team took

00:33:21
up a new post so definitely It's
slimming down would that be

00:33:25
a sign that in fact it's getting closer
and closer to being finished I guess it's

00:33:30
fair enough to say it there's

00:33:31
a sign that it's moving toward the end but
of course something moves toward the end

00:33:35
from the day it begins I'm still not
clear about about the timing it is not

00:33:40
surprising that people have
worked very very hard for

00:33:44
a couple of years at this stage you know
if the end is in sight or they feel that

00:33:49
the stuff they've been working on is

00:33:51
a satisfactory place for them to leave
to take on a new job perhaps to take

00:33:57
a month long vacation to get reacquainted
with their families so I don't think that

00:34:01
that that it's

00:34:02
a sponsor yet I'll believe that this is
over when Mr Moeller comes out and says

00:34:07
here's my report also we had the U.S.

00:34:10
House of Representatives vote unanimously
to make the Moller findings public of

00:34:16
course that was blocked by the Republican
controlled Senate but it just goes to

00:34:21
show the interest in the result here which
is kind of interesting despite the fact

00:34:25
that the Congress would not vote to protect
the mall or pro but now they want to

00:34:30
know what's in it how likely is it as

00:34:32
a public will ever really find out what
there is and what it says and what it found

00:34:37
I think the odds of it finding out what's
in everything that's in the report the

00:34:42
odds approach zero it is certainly possible
that investigative reporter is speaking

00:34:48
to anonymous sources will be able to piece
together much of it but these kinds of

00:34:52
inquiries unless somebody is indicted these
types of inquiries are generally kept

00:34:57
secret because it's really unfair to
trash somebody a report or for example

00:35:02
a grand jury report to trash somebody and
then not indict him or her and that's

00:35:09
been

00:35:09
a long tradition in grand juries you either
and dight or you say nothing and I think

00:35:13
that that sort of tradition would applied
to an outside investigation of such as

00:35:18
the one in this. Mo has been conducting
And so I don't think it matters how hill

00:35:22
that's on any of these things Department
of Justice will be governed by the law and

00:35:27
its own rules after so much time public
I know is really hoping at least to get

00:35:34
some sort of

00:35:34
a resolution from all of this do you
think that they will be satisfied or

00:35:38
ultimately because he's farming out so many
of the issues that he's finding in his

00:35:43
scope is limited that many of the answers
just won't be available you know I look I

00:35:48
think in the end we won't know
everything but I think we'll know

00:35:52
a lot and people like you and other
investigative reporters will talk to an

00:35:58
anonymous sources and probably get more
information but at the end of the day I

00:36:04
don't think we will ever sort of know
everything will the question of whether or

00:36:08
not the Trump campaign colluded with
Russia will we know the answer to that

00:36:14
question well again as I've mentioned
in prior programs cool Luzhin is not

00:36:18
a crime if the question is will you think
that look like reamed the Trump camp will

00:36:25
there be information of Trump campaigning
was working with individual Russians I

00:36:32
think the answer to that so that's going
to be yes that's Robert diets professor of

00:36:36
governmental affairs at George Mason
University going seven thirty seven MAX eight

00:36:42
and nine planes will be grounded
for weeks if not longer until

00:36:45
a software upgrade can be tested and
installed as officials in France prepare to

00:36:51
begin analyzing the black boxes from

00:36:53
a jet that crashed in Ethiopia Sunday
investigators will be seeking clues into the

00:36:58
deadly Ethiopian Ethiopian Airlines crash
crashed shortly after takeoff from. The

00:37:04
crash killed one hundred fifty seven
people from thirty five nations it was the

00:37:09
second such calamity involving that model
of Boeing planes since October the United

00:37:15
States was the last of dozens of nations
to ground the planes. Aviation analyst

00:37:20
Scott Hamilton says the US Federal Aviation
Administration trailed other global

00:37:25
aviation agencies in reacting to
the disaster Monday the C.E.O.

00:37:31
Of Ethiopian Airlines said flat out the
pilot had flight control issues at that

00:37:37
point I believe the F.A.A.

00:37:39
Should have acted it would

00:37:40
a bit about the middle of the pack so
the speak at that stage possible links

00:37:45
between the accidents of Rock the aviation
industry scared passengers and left the

00:37:50
world's biggest plane maker
scrambling to prove the safety of

00:37:53
a money spinning model intend to be the
standard for decades Multan says the flying

00:37:59
public needs to hear more detail information
before confident the Boeing MAX

00:38:04
aircraft can be restored united the pilots
Southwest pilots American pilot said

00:38:09
they're playing

00:38:10
a safe but they don't tell you why they
say it's safe and that doesn't really

00:38:14
reassure the fan public Boeing says it has
paused deliveries of its vast to selling

00:38:20
seven thirty seven MAX aircraft built at
its factory near Seattle but continues to

00:38:25
produce its single aisle jets at full
speed while dealing with worldwide fleets

00:38:29
grounding former Texas congressman better
zero zero Rorke is the latest entrant

00:38:35
into the crowded Democratic presidential
field O'Rorke was little known nationally

00:38:40
before he nearly upset Republican Ted Cruz
last November and now hopes to ride that

00:38:45
rapid rise to fame all the way to the White
House in two thousand and twenty the

00:38:49
away national correspondent Jim alone has
more from Washington I'm running to serve

00:38:55
you as president of the United States of
America after months of intensive patient

00:38:59
former Texas congressman right there to
award launched his presidential campaign in

00:39:05
the early voting state of Iowa and with
online video we are truly no more than ever

00:39:11
the last great hope of earth at this moment
of maximum peril and maximum potential

00:39:18
but show. Ourselves and those who will
succeed us in this great country just who we

00:39:23
are and what we can do at forty six homework
brings youthful exuberance and fund

00:39:29
raising prowess to what is already

00:39:31
a jam packed and diverse Democratic
presidential field the former congressman came

00:39:36
to national attention last year after he
nearly defeated Texas Republican Senator

00:39:42
Ted Cruz in

00:39:44
a campaign that inspired Democrats well
beyond the borders of that conservative

00:39:49
state we're not going to find ourselves
by who or what we're against or afraid of

00:39:55
or scared of at the White House President
Donald Trump said he was ready to take on

00:40:01
a Democratic nominee
next year whether it is

00:40:04
a war or someone else that nothing so much
can move ahead I said Is he crazy or is

00:40:10
it just the way he acts so I think it's
going to be tough for somebody but you know

00:40:13
what whoever it is it makes no difference
to me whatsoever Award No joins

00:40:18
a varied group of candidates
that also reflects

00:40:21
a range of policy views from centrists to
ultra liberal says analyst John who Jack

00:40:27
I think we're going to see a lively
debate of ideas and issues in

00:40:32
a way that we didn't see out much
in two thousand and sixteen and in

00:40:35
a way we're certainly not going to see
on the Republican side favors universal

00:40:40
health care coverage images and fighting
climate change he also brings passion to

00:40:46
the race you'll have to contend with
established candidates who do as well like

00:40:51
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
Clinton government works great for those

00:40:58
with money and power and not for
the rest of the people it is

00:41:04
corruption plain and simple and we need
to call it out former Vice President Joe

00:41:10
Biden strongly hinted this week that he
will join the race soon and he could

00:41:15
quickly become the front runner but some
Democrats may be looking for. A political

00:41:20
outsider to take on trumps next year
says Will Marshall looking to Washington

00:41:26
experience in their present really they're
looking for people going to challenge

00:41:31
a political culture the political
class I think is dysfunctional

00:41:36
a worker who makes several stops on
his Iowa tour and then will hold

00:41:40
a major campaign kickoff in his hometown
of El Paso Texas on March third him alone

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00:42:30
Children whose families fled conflict in
the Democratic Republic of Congo now face

00:42:34
a new fight for survival
UNICEF estimates more than

00:42:38
a quarter million of them
face malnutrition the always

00:42:41
a rush hour Saudi reports that

00:42:43
a civilians return to their homes and
over overburdened local health care that

00:42:49
number is likely to Ross Susan and her
daughter Rosie that fled Congo's Kasai

00:42:54
region to find shelter and keep wheat.
Daughters Ballmer Ishta and I have no money

00:43:00
to feed her you know like thousands of
other civilians who fled conflict in the

00:43:04
P.R.C.

00:43:05
Susan struggled to find food you know she
start to eat sad because she was so hungry

00:43:10
now a belly is swollen I can't buy daughter
medication and no way of treating her

00:43:15
a cut nothing rose at died after the filming
of this video. The ongoing conflict

00:43:22
bred insecurity forcing thousands of families
to flee into the bush but there they

00:43:27
faced food shortages that forced them to
return home in search of lifesaving care

00:43:31
and. We left the bush because of
hunger and suffering when we found

00:43:36
a village to rest and I was told about
this hospital where children could receive

00:43:39
medical care and food for free online
services at this clinic could be the

00:43:43
difference between life and death. And you
know they heard about the care offered

00:43:48
at this hospital this mother came immediately
with her child and after clinical

00:43:53
examinations the child was declared
malnourished the fighting in case I was one of

00:43:58
a series of deadly flare ups following
the former president's refusal to leave

00:44:02
power in twenty sixteen UNICEF and its
partners have treated about two hundred

00:44:06
thousand severely malnourished
children in the D. Or C.

00:44:09
Over the past two years but estimate there
are another two hundred sixty thousand

00:44:14
in need

00:44:15
a rush. And you're listening
to international edition

00:44:23
on V.O.A. . Some two hundred
thousand people in Malawi

00:44:28
a been displaced by floods that have
affected half of the country's twenty eight

00:44:32
districts as of Wednesday the government
had reported at least fifty six deaths and

00:44:37
over five hundred injuries meteorologists
have warned that more rain is on the way

00:44:42
missing are reports from one of the district
most affected by the floods people at

00:44:48
this evacuation account by

00:44:49
a monk to read it if I was in the Malawians
pool of people forced from their homes

00:44:54
by friends that have damaged the roads
washed away bridges and killed love story or

00:45:00
way that expires say this was

00:45:02
a result of the trip because.
Of that to buoy in the from

00:45:05
a neighboring Mozambique victims or

00:45:08
a council they would kill
somebody for meaning but made him

00:45:12
a good mate not while we were fast asleep
and I was awakened by sound of some

00:45:15
unfolding down of the starter I me
Giulio waked up as and found that it was

00:45:19
a wall of our house we found refuge achieves
house until the following morning when

00:45:23
we were told to stay at this camp and there
already more easy House slowed almost

00:45:29
everything he had but he managed to escape
easy to children in need you know so I

00:45:35
knew. We are now expecting well wishes to
provide us with some food some blankets

00:45:42
and also

00:45:42
a range of place in the upper land where
we can resettle. Praised into Peter. Has

00:45:49
a degree had

00:45:49
a foot in Africa the district's disaster
area is at the maid at edge into appeal

00:45:55
for help but the relief ideas that have
started to show you are being helped by the

00:46:00
by odes witchery many probably
would want to think. Of

00:46:06
a department which doesn't of disaster
management affairs. Minister of Homeland

00:46:11
Security to try to help us with the
helicopter so that it should be utterly fair

00:46:16
lifting some of the roof items to become
so that you cannot be accessed by road

00:46:21
maybe while on into if you wake is how busy
ploy in accounts. Traditions I got if I

00:46:26
was people one practices that
helped prevent the outbreaks of

00:46:31
a fictious disease well song. Might or
not oh mercy why no five children not

00:46:38
a good mind

00:46:38
a. Minimal one yeah yeah an infant from
this is how many don't seem enough

00:46:45
lads in the south than in Malawi for years
I killed about two hundred seventy six

00:46:50
people and to displace to two hundred
if they did thousand AD as governmental

00:46:54
authorities say they plan to study relocating
people from flooded porn is to higher

00:47:00
ground the thinking or Doctorow
to do away with. About.

00:47:07
This idiocy does US doesn't like the one
we experienced benighted in this what you

00:47:12
have expressed in marching twenty nineteen
how evil folk warned over another week

00:47:18
of the studio starting from much what.
I did not smile when that rains

00:47:25
how likely it will. See now
for you when you sang Jan And

00:47:32
you're listening to
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00:47:35
. To twenty nineteen V.O.A.

00:47:40
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Deal with. A new.

00:48:41
National dish and continues by twenty fifty
Australians will no longer enjoy winter

00:48:47
as they know it today in fact winter as
they know it will be nonexistent according

00:48:52
to the results of

00:48:53
a project involving academics and
colleagues from the Australian National

00:48:57
University School of Art and
Design and from the A.N.U.

00:49:00
Climate Change Institute they've developed
an interactive tool to show the impacts

00:49:04
of climate change in

00:49:05
a way that people can engage with and better
understand I talked about it with two

00:49:09
of the professors who worked on this Dr
Geoff Hinchcliffe and Dr Mitchell Whitelaw

00:49:16
the results of climate changes like
this are are very frightening. It is

00:49:21
a I mean it's scary I guess until the
very much strategy that we're using to

00:49:25
communicate is China by when we say no
winter it's not like we're going to remove

00:49:30
you know the winter months of

00:49:31
a year the month will still be here but
the average daily maximum temperature at

00:49:35
that time will be warmer than winters we
have had traditionally and there actually

00:49:40
one be

00:49:40
a period the year which has daily maximum
temperature is that you know that match

00:49:45
historical winter but we mainly say no
winter How will you distinguish your season

00:49:50
and the savings will roll through in the
normal way and of course the week to

00:49:54
period will be colder than the some

00:49:55
a period that we have here
it won't be anything like

00:49:58
a cold of that was in terms of the daily
chances that will lead to lose because

00:50:03
anything can change through the length I
understand that some are calling it new

00:50:08
summer Jessie and and yeah that's what
happened the other end of the year if in the

00:50:14
wind period is mild almost really something
closer to what we currently experience

00:50:20
in spring and also that's happening that
we typically either engage in out from

00:50:25
among we're experiencing

00:50:27
a new Selma something that's really
contracted summer to come through either by

00:50:31
a really intense period and interestingly
in a Strat we need a twenty I'd

00:50:36
a some A because we have some I you know
I know the Christmas period it really

00:50:40
brings them in something like that model
that we saw record breaking all Everest

00:50:45
right on this die hard screening of die it
was really shocking accounts and that's

00:50:50
only thirty years the way that you're
talking about is happening well to some

00:50:53
extent already getting

00:50:55
a preview of it you know what happened in
the summer that just come by it's really

00:50:59
not

00:50:59
a million miles away from what we're showing
in this market and some of them to stop

00:51:04
pretty things to do but it's still going
on where visually by doing enjoying from

00:51:09
very by the guy across months and suddenly
in the midst of summer it was great

00:51:16
for them that he was. A across the months
to astronomy. What will that mean for the

00:51:22
ecology for this Barrier Reef and all of
these other humans that are so prized

00:51:29
there is

00:51:30
a chilling here great question and you
know I guess when designing an ecologist

00:51:36
sort of funded their role in this project
was really to visualize and find ways to

00:51:41
communicate these projections so that we
don't answer the questions we've months

00:51:46
with already except But all of the sons
are shouting pretty loudly at the impact

00:51:51
you know that there is they're going to be
really serious unless we do something in

00:51:55
a study and availability to to really reduce
out how the nation was and take action

00:51:59
really quickly tell me

00:52:00
a little bit about how you came up with
these findings you have an actual climate

00:52:05
tool. Fortunately we were able to call
on some dogs being produced by the

00:52:12
Queensland Government to quantify that I
produced really fine grain the prime right

00:52:18
Dr Hall looking at twenty people in modeling
and initially wanted produce that it

00:52:24
was to help grow it isn't people walking
away and to prepare for all the impacts of

00:52:29
climate change you know the whole adaptation.
Necessarily have to stalk me fuck the

00:52:35
climate has got to be changing subjects
that produces the to help prepare them for

00:52:39
those changes. Have any kind of
need to find that out. So we

00:52:46
were able to sort of get the whole doc to
represent or found the locations across

00:52:52
the strata and do

00:52:53
a representation for the holidays and
also allows people to really look at the

00:52:59
effects of climate change so that the
aspect of the work we think it's really

00:53:04
important that we kind of show people what
I mean in their world if people want to

00:53:09
look at this and see how it actually works
what can they do beside it currently

00:53:14
live and add that my climate I see

00:53:17
a doc told me to. All
right we thank you for

00:53:22
a hall that information and interesting
commentary Dr Jeff pension and Dr

00:53:28
Mitchell white law professors at the
Australian National University.

00:53:41
A Britney Spears themed musical
is coming to bright lights

00:53:45
a Broadway production called Once
Upon A one more time will be

00:53:51
a comedy based on

00:53:52
a book club made up of fairy tale princesses
and will feature many of the Princess

00:53:58
of Pop's biggest hits debuts in Chicago
later this year with plans for

00:54:04
a New York and Broadway
show by twenty twenty.

00:54:21
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00:54:36
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00:55:42
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00:55:48
Eleven. Eleven.

00:57:10
I've.

00:57:36
This is the way news I'm Tommy make me
authorities New Zealand are not certain how

00:57:41
many people might be involved in attacks
against Muslim worshippers and are warning

00:57:45
residents to avoid going to mosque anywhere
in the country and maybe correspondent

00:57:50
Jackie Quinn reports New Zealand's prime
minister just into our durned says there

00:57:54
was carnage at two mosques in Christ Church
this is one of New Zealand's Doc asked

00:58:00
day she says many of the victims appear
to be migrants seeking safety in the

00:58:05
country they are us the person who has
picture I did this violence against us is

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not this witness at one of the mosques
that was attacked says there was blood

00:58:17
everywhere fighting the board over

00:58:18
a blaze and it's gotten out of business
witnesses say they heard dozens of shots

00:58:23
and then people screaming as they ran out
in terror residents were helping victims

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in the street as they waited for emergency
responders to arrive I'm Jackie Quinn

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the U.S. Senate voted to reject U.S.

00:58:35
President Donald Trump's national
emergency declaration to fund border wall

00:58:40
construction as a piece Saager Magali
reports twelve Senate Republicans ignored

00:58:46
a presidential veto threat and joined

00:58:48
a unified Democratic Caucus to pass the
disapproval measure and the Republican led

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chamber there were references to high school
civics class and Schoolhouse Rock for

00:58:59
me this is

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a constitutional question Congress not
the president has the sole Thora to

00:59:04
determine how to spend taxpayer money
this check on the executive is

00:59:08
a source of our freedom Mitt Romney Rob
Portman and Lamar Alexander of all the

00:59:13
dozen Republicans voting to block the
president's move the legal scholars will say

00:59:17
it's totally constitutional he's promising

00:59:20
a veto and it's nearly certain there
will not be enough votes for an override

00:59:25
solder at the White House signed more
at a news dot com This is V.O.A.

00:59:31
News. Hundreds of people
surrendered to U.S.

00:59:35
Backed forces for the second day in

00:59:37
a row as the last remnants of the Islamic
state group fought to hold in the Syrian

00:59:42
village of booze officials say that Thirteen
hundred people surrendered to serous

00:59:47
Syria democratic forces bringing the total
number of people to leave boggles since

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the S.D.F.

00:59:53
Resumed its final assault to more than
four thousand acting defense secretary

00:59:58
Patrick Shanahan told

01:00:00
a US Senate Armed Services Committee that
the fight is almost over seventy nine

01:00:04
member defeat ISIS coalition has liberated
virtually all of the territory ISIS once

01:00:10
held as the U.S.

01:00:11
Drawdown continues we will maintain

01:00:13
a presence to prevent ISIS resurgence
fighting on the outskirts of the goons has

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been intense with.

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